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hāro

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See also: Härö, härö, haro, Haro, and háro

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *saqalo — compare with Samoan saʻalo “to scrape, to grate (of coconuts), scraper, coconut grater” and sālo “to smoothen a surface”, Tongan haʻalo “to smooth clean a surface, to scrape away outer layer of bark or leaf for its inner fibres”.[1][2][3]

Verb

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hāro (passive hāroa)

  1. to scrape
    Synonyms: waru, waku, wharo
  2. to scutch i.e. remove waxy outer layer of harakeke (Phormium tenax) leaves exposing inner fibres (muka) to be woven as fabric
  3. to plane or smoothen wood
    Synonym: waru
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Adjective

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hāro

  1. smooth
  2. calm (of sea)
  3. low (of tides)

References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 50-1
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “saqalo”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 242

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “hāro”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 45
  • “hāro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
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